Pablo Picasso

  • Year Born/Died: 1881-1973
  • City Born: Malaga
  • Significant Works: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Guernica, and The weeping woman
  • Movement: Neoclassical, Cubism

Pablo Picasso is one of the creators of cubism, and his works can be seen worldwide. He did his inaugural oil painting when he was only eight years old. After attending school, Pablo Picasso stayed in Paris, where he met influential painters from the Montparnasse and Montmartre areas.

Throughout his lengthy career, Pablo Picasso contributed to the development of art in all his creative phases (cubism, pink period, blue period, etc.). His style switched throughout his career as he tried several techniques, theories, and concepts, including some haunting themes.